The US Government Is Running a 7-Month-Old AI While China Uses the Lat

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The US government is making national security decisions with Claude 3.5 Sonnet — a model over seven months old — while consumers use Claude 4.6 Opus. The models arrive on physical 1TB drives to air-gapped systems. Meanwhile, China distills frontier models through mass API calls and deploys the latest versions to its own government. The US is a year behind.